Re: [rdiff-backup-users] continual problem with rdiff-backup

[Alex Samad]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:47:14PM -0700, Steven Willoughby wrote:
> On 12/05/2009 01:28 PM, Alex P wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >This file has failed in the initial backup and not it fails everytime
> >
> >UpdateError usr/bin/pstruct Updated mirror temp file
> >/mnt/backup/system/usr/bin/rdiff-backup.tmp.17 does not match source
> 
> Normally when you get this error it means that the source file
> changed during the backup.  In that case you only get it once.
> 
> Can you look at the diff between /usr/bin/pstruct and
> /mnt/backup/system/usr/bin/pstruct ?  Perhaps the problem in your
> case is that the file in the backup directory was changed.   If
> that's the case it might fix things going forward if you just fix
> the differences (copy the source file to the dest manually) but I
> can't reproduce the problem over here so I'm not positive it would
> work.

I think the problem is its a hardlink. I am moving the original out of
the way and then doing a backup and then moving it back to see what
happens

alex

> 
> Steven
> 
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